SERIAL entrepreneur Elon Musk has made the sensational claim we are most likely living in a computer simulation, and warned that if we aren’t, our world will probably end soon.

The tech genius, who is responsible for companies such as PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, said that the ‘reality’ we live in is probably made by artificial intelligence (AI).

Musk, who has been dubbed the real-life Tony Stark for his futuristic conceptions, highlighted the progress of video games and said that this almost certainly proves that we too are just computer simulations.

Speaking at the Code tech conference in California, Mr Musk said: “The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following.

“40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot. That’s where we were.

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“Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. And soon we’ll have virtual reality, we’ll have augmented reality.

“If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable.”

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